Review of: Cristina Eghenter, Bernard Sellato, and G. Simon Devung, Social Science Research and Conservation Management in the Interior of Borneo: Unravelling Past and Present Interactions of People and Forests

Toothless Ancestors, Felicitous Descendants: The Rite of Secondary Burial in South Taiwan

KaaLiyaaTTam: The Life History of a Performer and the Develop-ment of a Performing Art

Elegiac Chhand and Duhā in Charani Lore

The Bone Motif and Lambs in the Turkish Folktale “The Reed Door”

The Lapidary Sky over Japan

Traditional Law of the Ede

Thirty Korku Dancing Songs

Obituary: Stephen Fuchs SVD (1908-2000)

Obituary: Wang Xiaotang (1918–2000)

Review of: Amy K. Crook, Jelena O. Krstovic and Daniel G. Marowski, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Volume 26: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Review of: Edwin Bernbaum, The way to shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom beyond the Himalayas; Andras Höfer, The Caste Hierarchy and the State in Nepal; Vilma May A. Fuentes and Edito T. De La Cruz, A Treasure of Mandaya and Mansaka Folk Literature

Local Legends of the Gempei War: Reflections of Mediaeval Japanese History.

Filipino Myths of Death and Speciation: Content and Structure.

Myths and Ritual of Rice Spirits Bambarazon among the Rungus.

Mayndala: A Legend and Possession Cult of Tulunad, South Kanara, India.

Bird Lore in Southwestern Iran.

The Turkish Folk Theatre.

Review of: Alan Dundes, Varia Folklorica

Review of: Felix J. Oinas; Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics; Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed, Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a Village in North India

Review of: Tōichi Mabuchi, Toward the Reconstruction of Ryukyuan Cosmology; Josef Kreiner, Some Problems of Folk Religion in the Southwest Ilands (Ryūkyū); William A. Lessa, Chinese Body Divination; Leyte-Samar Studies; Lorenzo Ga. Cesar, The Santo Niño of Tacloban in History Legend and Devotion of the People; Maria G. Villegas Sister, Superstitious Beliefs and Practices in the Coastal Towns of Eastern Leyte; Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Religious Thoughts of the Bronze Age People of Indochina; Georges Condaminas, Some Mnong Gar Religious Concepts: A World of Forms; Tsuneo Ayabe, A Study of Soul Concept in Thailand and Japan.

On Certain Tales of the Konjaku Monogatari as Reflections of Japanese Folk Religion.

Rice Rituals of Orissa.

Review of: Kunio Yanagita, Japanese Folk Tales; John W. Hall and Richard K. Beardsley, Twelve Doors to Japan; Folk Cultures of Japan and East Asia; Joseph Haekel and C. B. Tripathi, Eine Besessenheits Séance der Rathva-Kali in Gujarat (Indien); Myths on the Origin of Death among the Early Filipinos.

Review of: Abstracts of Folklore Studies; Tachibana Kyōdō, On the Relation between the Furies-belief and Mahaprajñapāramita-sutrā-belief in Japan; Nishiguchi Junko, Buddhist Temples of Local Aristocrats in the 9th and 10th Century; David Szanton, Art in Sulu: A Survey; Siegbert Hummel and Paul G. Brewster, Games of the Tibetans; Karin Hissnk und Albert Hahn, Die Tacana.